Wales agrees to same new contract model as England
Wales will use the same model for the new community pharmacy contract as has been agreed in England, it was confirmed this week.
Following a meeting with Community Pharmacy Wales on 13 September, Jane
Hutt, the Welsh Assembly Government’s minister for health and social
services, said: “The Welsh Assembly Government endorses the England
and Wales model for a new community pharmacy contract.”
She added: “We will now be establishing a project implementation
board for Wales. Its purpose is to deliver this contract within the context
of our policy of developing a more proactive community pharmacy sector
in Wales.”
Phillip Parry, chairman of CPW, commented: “We are reassured by
the undertakings given to us by the minister on the new contract. There
are now a number of distribution and other key issues which the profession
will be working on with the minister’s officials in order to resolve
them.”
Funding for the new contract in Wales had yet to be announced as The
Journal went to press.
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